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The music stars urged the prime minister to stop the "extortionate and pernicious" websites that exploit fans.

The irony of the BBC is that it loves to tell people how influential it is without understanding that it is this very influence that is so pernicious.

For Mr Teltumbde, castes are "too pernicious to be managed for any progressive purpose".

In a 2005 speech, he called the Democrats who accused the administration of manipulating intelligence to justify the war “opportunists” who peddled “cynical and pernicious falsehoods” to gain political advantage.

It is, in some ways, the most pernicious because it strays far afield from direct claims of military and political heroism to celebrate a scientist, a profession built around facts.